Coaching Style: How to Be the Best Version of Yourself

Book excerpt: Everyone is a coach, regardless of their professional or personal background. If you guide your kids, your friends or colleagues towards a better course of action, you are acting as a coach. What makes one coach different from another is their different styles. The idea behind this book is to give you some tools that you can use right now to improve your coaching style. With some practice, you will be able to guide others more effectively in business and life. You will soon notice that this book begins with one coaching model called COOL. Please keep in mind that the COOL model is one out of many coaching models out there. It is the one I personally prefer since I created it based on my experience with another great model called GROW. Although you will find many references regarding Coaching Sessions, which implies a more formal setting, you can, and should, use your coaching skills during a conversation with anyone. Hopefully this book will help you further develop your own coaching style.